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dental school about 10 years ago, so currently I give the course at the University of Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry a couple times a year. It’s a hands-on course, so the dentist will learn the Gow-Gates and many of the other things we’ve talked about. I thoroughly enjoy teaching these courses and enjoy working with practitioners and helping them, so they’re comfortable when they treat their patients. MD: Yeah, that’s a great idea. I flew more than 100,000 miles last year lecturing and I would like to settle down, too, because the airplanes and the hotels get a little old after awhile. That’s easy enough: If they want to take your course, they just need to come spend a weekend in San Francisco at the best dental school in the country — the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry, which I’m proud to call my alma mater. I appreciate your time today. It’s been fantastic, and you have given our readers something to think about. Once again, I’ll issue my challenge to GPs reading this article: What’s keeping you from giving a Gow-Gates? It sounds like it can solve the issues of incomplete mandibular anesthesia that we’ve all fought during our careers. We’ll see if 2010 is the year we get more GPs to try the Gow-Gates. Thanks again for your time. I really appreciate it. JD: Thanks, Mike. And thanks for what you’re doing with Chairside magazine. I think it’s really beneficial to the practitioner. Good talking with you. It was fun to pull out my class picture from the class of 1988 and look through some of the faces as you were recalling the hematoma. I was looking at the picture thinking, OK, I think that person’s initials were R.D., trying to figure out who caused your hematoma that benefitted you with many cookies. MD: It was actually K.D., Kristi Doverance. You know you seat by alphabetical order, and she was on my left. And she’s now an oral surgeon. She was really one of the stars of our class. Of course, right next to her was Mike Doy, who had been a lab tech for 13 years before going to dental school, so every time we had to wax something up he was done in three minutes and after two hours ours still looked like crap. But it was really sort of a star-studded row. I had Rob Cunin there, who went on to go to orthodontic school. Kristi was fantastic with her hands. It just goes to prove you can do everything right and still get a hematoma. The truth of the matter is, we’re always trying to get the tip of the needle right back in that area, aren’t we? JD: Yes. Interestingly enough, our PSA technique is like our infiltration technique in that it’s parallel with our alveolar bone. And, like you said, even Interview of Dr. James Dower41
though you get the best operator using the correct technique, bad things happen to good people. MD: It wasn’t that bad. If that had been the biggest problem of my life, my life would’ve been easy! CM Dr. James Dower is an associate professor at the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry. Contact him at jdower@pacific.edu or 415-929- 6538. 42 chairsidemagazine.com
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